Jim Shead Waterways Photographer & Writer

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Jim Shead's Waterways Information

An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways Writer and Photographer.

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Featured Pages

Walking the Waterways A new feature for the thousands of people who love to walk the towpaths of our Canals and Rivers and a listing of Waterway Events of 2009 is now available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

Prickwillow Bridge Narrowboat
For more information see River Lark (Great Ouse).

The 2009 Boating Listing is available and is even bigger as it now includes Broads Authority boats. See the Boat Listing

The new 2009 Nicholsons Guides Books are now available here.

Ben Hobs of Braford Wharf is offrering this Bantam Tug for Sale - please contact him directly if you are interested.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers.

Now it's easier to buy on-line when you

Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

To buy photographs of both waterways and other subject types visit www.photo-sales.org.uk . For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs

Quote of the day No 144

Friday 3 July 2009

The review in Smith’s journal went on satirically to draw comparison between the Bulletin and ‘the noblest of all literary forms, the epic or saga’:

The central and continuing theme is the struggle of Mr Robert Aickman to rescue the ravished waterways of England from the bestial clutch of the British Transport Commission. As in all epics, there are fabulous digressions, and splendid minor characters who come and go and reappear; but Mr Aickman remains, a combination of Odysseus and Mrs Pankhurst, tenacious, unsquashable and vocal, a figure of heroic stamp. Meanwhile, the heroine, the canal system, still languishes thirteen years older (and minus a limb or two) but more beautiful and desirable than ever, still kept locked up and neglected by the Giant (BTC), who changes his shape, vanishes, prevaricates and is just as rough and uncivilised as he was at the beginning. Can he save her?

David Bolton - Race Against Time

For more information about these daily quotations see About the Quote of the Day.

Changes to this website

Over the last year or so I have been changing from old static HTML pages to PHP script pages that compose web pages from a database held on the web server. This has enabled me to offer new features, like the Book Search, now on the Books.php page, and similar search facilities on many other pages. Now all pages are in the new style but you may find that you sometimes get an old style page if you have arrived via an old link or a search engine.

If you do find you are viewing an old style page you should find that all the links in the navigation bar will still return you to the new (PHP) pages.

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